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Old 09-08-2003, 05:24 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Problems connecting 2 monitors and tv with FX5200

I've been trying get my Nvidia FX 5200 card to use 3 displays (2 monitors and my tv) but for some reason I can only get 2 working.

When I connect all 3 only the 2 monitors work, but if I disconnect the 2nd monitor and reboot I can get an output on my tv.

I've searched the boards and I've seen that nView supports 3 displays but I can't find any information on how to get them to work.

Both the monitors are the regular analog monitors (1x DVI, 1x VGA) and the tv is connected via TV-out.

My system specs are:
Aopen Ak33 motherboard
Athlon 1.1 Ghz processor
512mb SDram
Nvidia 128 MB FX5200 graphics accelerator
Windows 98 SE

Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Old 09-08-2003, 07:31 AM   #2 (permalink)
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No nVidia card supports 3 displays. The softwware does, but it requires 2 cards to do it. Only Matrox cards (Parhelia and P750 Millennium) support triple displays.
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Thanks for the info I guess I was mistaken but nonethless shouldn't I be allowed to select my second display instead of the computer assuming I'll be using my 2nd monitor as the display.
This way everytime I want to use my tv I have to reboot my pc with the 2nd monitor unplugged.

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You cannot have three ANALOG displays. That's because these cards have only two RAMDAC units for the three outputs. If one of your monitors were true digital DVI, then you could at least use the TV-out to clone one of the two other displays.
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